John 4:5

New English Translation

Now he came to a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

Cross References

Genesis 33:19

Then he purchased the portion of the field where he had pitched his tent; he bought it from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of money.

Genesis 48:22

As one who is above your brothers, I give to you the mountain slope, which I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow.”

1 Kings 13:32

for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority against the altar in Bethel and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north will certainly be fulfilled.”

Luke 9:52

He sent messengers on ahead of him. As they went along, they entered a Samaritan village to make things ready in advance for him,

John 4:12

Surely you’re not greater than our ancestor Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock.”

John 4:39

Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the report of the woman who testified, “He told me everything I ever did.”

John 4:6

Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.

John 4:8

(For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies.)

Joshua 24:32

The bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the part of the field that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for one hundred pieces of money. So it became the inheritance of the tribe of Joseph.